As a result, new businesses were springing up left and right and several neighborhoods were transformed.

Orchids are springing up more and more in grocery stores.

Fear-based advocacy groups have been springing up everywhere and they are causing more harm than good.

At the same time, new styles were springing up, too.

It dances with springing leaps and fl aps of its mighty wings to win a mate.

It dances with springing leaps and flaps of its mighty wings to win a mate.

Right now, all kinds of models are springing forth for getting solar onto the roofs of individual homes and businesses.

Huge fulfillment centers were springing up around the country.

After a cool night, a savanna monitor lizard has to wait for the morning sun before springing into action.

The chance of life springing up can never be more than the total amount of planets in our universe in any case.

British Dictionary definitions for springing

springing

/ˈsprɪŋɪŋ/

noun

1.

the level where an arch or vault rises from a support Also called spring, springing line, springing point

spring

/sprɪŋ/

verb springs, springing, sprang, sprung, sprung

1.

to move or cause to move suddenly upwards or forwards in a single motion

2.

to release or be released from a forced position by elastic force: the bolt sprang back

3.

(transitive) to leap or jump over

4.

(intransitive) to come, issue, or arise suddenly

5.

(intransitive) (of a part of a mechanism, etc) to jump out of place

6.

to make (wood, etc) warped or split or (of wood, etc) to become warped or split

7.

to happen or cause to happen unexpectedly: to spring a surprise, the boat sprung a leak

8.

(intransitive) to develop or originate: the idea sprang from a chance meeting

9.

(intransitive) usually foll by from. to be descended: he sprang from peasant stock

10.

(intransitive) often foll by up. to come into being or appear suddenly: factories springing up

11.

(transitive) (of a gun dog) to rouse (game) from cover

12.

(intransitive) (of game or quarry) to start or rise suddenly from cover

13.

(intransitive) to appear to have a strong upward movement: the beam springs away from the pillar

14.

to explode (a mine) or (of a mine) to explode

15.

(transitive) to provide with a spring or springs

16.

(transitive) (informal) to arrange the escape of (someone) from prison

17.

(intransitive) (archaic or poetic) (of daylight or dawn) to begin to appear

noun

18.

the act or an instance of springing

19.

a leap, jump, or bound

20.

the quality of resilience; elasticity

(as modifier): spring steel

21.

the act or an instance of moving rapidly back from a position of tension

22.

a natural outflow of ground water, as forming the source of a stream

(as modifier): spring water

23.

a device, such as a coil or strip of steel, that stores potential energy when it is compressed, stretched, or bent and releases it when the restraining force is removed

(as modifier): a spring mattress

24.

a structural defect such as a warp or bend

25.

(sometimes capital) the season of the year between winter and summer, astronomically from the March equinox to the June solstice in the N hemisphere and from the September equinox to the December solstice in the S hemisphere

(as modifier): spring showers, related adjective vernal

26.

the earliest or freshest time of something

27.

a source or origin

28.

one of a set of strips of rubber, steel, etc, running down the inside of the handle of a cricket bat, hockey stick, etc

29.

(nautical) Also called spring line. a mooring line, usually one of a pair that cross amidships

In Middle English, it took on the role of causal sprenge, from Old English sprengan (as still in to spring a trap, etc.). Slang meaning "to pay" (for a treat, etc.) is recorded from 1906. Meaning "to announce suddenly" (usually with on) is from 1876. Meaning "to release" (from imprisonment) is from 1900.

n.

"season following winter," 1540s, earlier springing time (late 14c.), spring-time (late 15c.), spring of the year (1520s), which had replaced Old English Lent by late 14c. From spring (v.); also see spring (n.3). The notion is of the "spring of the year," when plants "spring up" (cf. spring of the leaf, 1530s).

Other Germanic languages tend to take words for "fore" or "early" as their roots for the season name, cf. Danish voraar, Dutch voorjaar, literally "fore-year;" German Frühling, from Middle High German vrueje "early." In 15c., the season also was prime-temps, after Old French prin tans, tamps prim (French printemps, which replaced primevère 16c. as the common word for spring), from Latin tempus primum, literally "first time, first season."

Spring fever was Old English lenctenadle; first record of spring cleaning is in 1857 (in ancient Persia, the first month, corresponding to March-April, was Adukanaiša, which apparently means "Irrigation-Canal-Cleaning Month;" Kent, p.167). Spring chicken "small roasting chicken" (usually 11 to 14 weeks) is recorded from 1780; transferred sense of "young person" first recorded 1906. Spring training first attested 1897.

"source of a stream or river," Old English, from spring (v.) on the notion of the water "bursting forth" from the ground. Rarely used alone, appearing more often in compounds, e.g. wyllspring "wellspring." Figurative sense of "source or origin of something" is attested from early 13c.

"act of springing or leaping," mid-15c., from spring (v.). The elastic coil that returns to its shape when stretched is so called from early 15c., originally in clocks and watches. As a device in carriages, coaches, etc., it is attested from 1660s. The oldest noun sense (c.1300) is a general one of "action or time of rising or springing into existence." It was used of sunrise, the waxing of the moon, rising tides, etc., and is preserved in spring (n.1).

A device, such as a coil of wire, that returns to its original shape after being compressed or stretched. Because of their ability to return to their original shape, springs are used to store energy, as in mechanical clocks, and to absorb or lessen energy, as in the suspension system of vehicles.

spread it thick

To exaggerate; overstate; bullshit: To say it was for the good of humanity is spreading it a bit thick(1940s+)

The Dictionary of American Slang, Fourth Edition by Barbara Ann Kipfer, PhD. and Robert L. Chapman, Ph.D.Copyright (C) 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers.Cite This Source

springing in the Bible

(Heb. 'ain, "the bright open source, the eye of the landscape"). To be carefully distinguished from "well" (q.v.). "Springs" mentioned in Josh. 10:40 (Heb. 'ashdoth) should rather be "declivities" or "slopes" (R.V.), i.e., the undulating ground lying between the lowlands (the shephelah) and the central range of hills.